Slugbug

about

Paul D. Millar, alias SLUGBUG, is a New York-based musician and producer. His music is idiosyncratic, drawing from influences in new wave, prog rock, post-punk, and electronic music; he's characterized his music as "micro-prog," "synth-prog-punk," and "nervous man music." It tends towards brief, intricate songs dense with event. Born in Waco, Texas in 1989, Millar grew up in a musical household; his mother taught music theory at a local university. Interested in music and technology, he began to prolifically write and record his own music as a teenager, and self-distributed it online. Much of this early, immature output is now lost to the sands of time; the later retrospective release "BUG STORY 2003-2007" (2013) collects the cream of it. As an adult, Millar moved to Austin in 2010, keen to escape the small-town atmosphere of Waco, and to engage with the more vibrant cultural life of the capital city. As a teenage amateur musician, Millar had necessarily become skillful at repairing broken tape machines, synthesizers, and the like, and he put this experience to use, securing a job as a repairman in a shop specializing in vintage synthesizers. He established his own semi-professional analog recording studio in Austin, Bug Sound (West), where he recorded his own material, and engineered/produced recordings for other artists as well. While living in Austin, Millar was fleetingly a member of the local band Pataphysics, and later a member of the related band Tucker A&M Perry Fou